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COMG! rankings should always we taken with a grain of salt. It's not a large chain so it's sales impact is small plus it seems their clientele is more Sony oriented . Using Smash Bros. Wii U as an example it had a first week of 278pts on comgnet or it sold 278 copies throughout all of its stores. So 278 of 227,527 copies Smash Bros. Wii U sold First week in all of Japan came from COMG! stores.

Like many others have said it's nice to get an idea of how games are doing but it's not indicative of sales all across Japan.

If all DLC came tied to $13 figurines, I'd consider all DLC to be free

Yeah the game will continue to have legs for considering it's the only n3ds exclusive and not the worst game to own anyway. Well and it's quite cheap... Probably will get another small boost one XCX hits.

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Btw I keep hearing in the Project X Zone 2 threads that the first game sold well in the West. Is this just an assumption based on the JP sales? Or any idea whether there was an actual report saying the 1st game sold well?

It sold about 130K in JP according to japanltdrank, so it's better than I remembered (I remembered closer to 50K lol).

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Btw I keep hearing in the Project X Zone 2 threads that the first game sold well in the West. Is this just an assumption based on the JP sales? Or any idea whether there was an actual report saying the 1st game sold well?

It sold about 130K in JP according to japanltdrank, so it's better than I remembered (I remembered closer to 50K lol).

With more than 400 000 units, the first episode of this Tactical-RPG series surprised not only fans but also press thanks to its massive line-up, stirring gameplay and unique humour! Among the famed returning licenses, Project X Zone 2 will feature Tekken, Tales of Vespiria, God Eater or .hack// series (Bandai Namco Entertainment), Devil May Cry, Megaman X and Resident Evil series (Capcom), Sakura Wars, Yakuza: Dead Souls and Virtua Fighter (SEGA).

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Btw I keep hearing in the Project X Zone 2 threads that the first game sold well in the West. Is this just an assumption based on the JP sales? Or any idea whether there was an actual report saying the 1st game sold well?

It sold about 130K in JP according to japanltdrank, so it's better than I remembered (I remembered closer to 50K lol).

I was surprised when I learned that a sequel had been announced. This is the typical game whose sequel is likely to perform way worse than the original title, but that's not unusual in Bandai Namco Entertainment

I checked Namco × Capcom sales and both sold exactly the same amount, the difference as you pointed out is that Project X Zone was overshipped.

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COMG! rankings should always we taken with a grain of salt. It's not a large chain so it's sales impact is small plus it seems their clientele is more Sony oriented . Using Smash Bros. Wii U as an example it had a first week of 278pts on comgnet or it sold 278 copies throughout all of its stores. So 278 of 227,527 copies Smash Bros. Wii U sold First week in all of Japan came from COMG! stores.

Like many others have said it's nice to get an idea of how games are doing but it's not indicative of sales all across Japan.

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I was surprised when I learned that a sequel had been announced. This is the typical game whose sequel is likely to perform way worse than the original title, but that's not unusual in Bandai Namco Entertainment

I checked Namco × Capcom sales and both sold exactly the same amount, the difference as you pointed out is that Project X Zone was overshipped.

Given the number of mentions of the West and NISA in the original, we can add in the newest XCOM (it added a bunch of SRPG systems) which did 2.6 million on PC alone, so we're looking at ~3.5-4 million people who are willing to buy the same game in this genre.

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Given the number of mentions of the West and NISA in the original, we can add in the newest XCOM (it added a bunch of SRPG systems) which did 2.6 million on PC alone, so we're looking at ~3.5-4 million people who are willing to buy the same game in this genre.

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Lots of people saying it should be a 3ds exclusive instead? Oh you mean from the game, not the thread. Yah, i dunno. The last one came out on 360 first then ps3 later. And was a technical mess if i recall. Who knows.

Uh. It's probably like they did last gen: trying to get the game on Sony platforms too, outside of 3DS and Wii U. The second best console is Vita indeed, so (while I don't think it'll do that well) it can be tried once.